Omar Kattan - MD & CSO at Sandstorm Digital FZE » Random Thoughtshttp://www.omarkattan.com
Managing Director & CSO at Sandstorm Digital FZESat, 28 Feb 2015 11:06:53 +0000en-UShourly1Happy New Year! All the best in 2015http://www.omarkattan.com/happy-new-year-2015/
http://www.omarkattan.com/happy-new-year-2015/#commentsWed, 31 Dec 2014 21:18:26 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=4634982014 has been an amazing year of growth and learning for me with lots of welcomed challenges both on the personal and business fronts. I’m really excited about 2015 and the new challenges it will bring. I also look forward to continue leading and inspiring the brilliant team over at Sandstorm Digital to deliver amazing [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/happy-new-year-2015/feed/0Sandstorm Turns One – 8 Lessons Learned From Building An Agency in the Middle Easthttp://www.omarkattan.com/sandstorm-turns-1-lessons-learned-building-agency/
http://www.omarkattan.com/sandstorm-turns-1-lessons-learned-building-agency/#commentsThu, 02 Oct 2014 04:48:39 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=463419Those who know me know that I recently left a comfortable job as head of Inbound Marketing and SEO at MediaCom and joined a fledgling start-up agency in the Middle East, Dubai to be precise. Yesterday, we closed the books on F/Y 2013/14 and was pleased to learn that the numbers were very healthy given [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/sandstorm-turns-1-lessons-learned-building-agency/feed/2Google’s HTTPS / SSL SEO Update – My Curated Viewhttp://www.omarkattan.com/googles-https-ssl-seo-update-curated-view/
http://www.omarkattan.com/googles-https-ssl-seo-update-curated-view/#commentsWed, 13 Aug 2014 17:47:44 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=463395Unless you’ve been hiding under a proverbial rock, you’ve probably heard by now about Google’s new and unsurprising move to provide a boost to websites utilising https urls and ssl certificates. This is what they said about the update on their blog… “For now, it’s only a very lightweight signal … But over time, we [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/googles-https-ssl-seo-update-curated-view/feed/3A Bitter Sweet Christmashttp://www.omarkattan.com/a-bitter-sweet-christmas/
http://www.omarkattan.com/a-bitter-sweet-christmas/#commentsMon, 24 Dec 2012 23:28:01 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=75769This is a bitter sweet Christmas for me. On the one hand, I can’t be with my two kids during this very special time of year. They’re in London with their mom and I’m out here in sunny Dubai building and co-running a new age brand communications agency. (Bitter) On the other hand, I’m out here [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/a-bitter-sweet-christmas/feed/0Spin-off: Launch of BrandStories.nethttp://www.omarkattan.com/spin-off-launch-of-brandstories-net/
http://www.omarkattan.com/spin-off-launch-of-brandstories-net/#commentsSat, 10 Mar 2012 12:02:15 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=4354Just a quick one to let you know that I’ve officially launched my new site, BrandStories.net. Why BrandStories.net? BrandStories.com is already taken :(. BrandStories.co.uk is also taken by a brand building agency that seems quite interesting actually. Bookmarked for later viewing. The topic of brand building through storytelling fascinates me. To promote my firm belief [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/spin-off-launch-of-brandstories-net/feed/0Online Privacy: Be Afraid, Be Eternally Afraid!http://www.omarkattan.com/online-privacy-be-afraid-be-eternally-afraid/
http://www.omarkattan.com/online-privacy-be-afraid-be-eternally-afraid/#commentsSat, 26 Nov 2011 19:43:35 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=3471They say that Saint Peter keeps a record of every scrap of information about each of our lives in his Big Black Book. They’re wrong; he dumped the book last year and replaced it with a tablet computer. Because he has friends in high places, he has unrestricted access to every byte of information on [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/online-privacy-be-afraid-be-eternally-afraid/feed/0Social Media Optimisation (SMO) – The Dell Examplehttp://www.omarkattan.com/social-media-optimisation-smo-the-dell-example/
http://www.omarkattan.com/social-media-optimisation-smo-the-dell-example/#commentsMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:30:46 +0000http://www.omarkattan.com/?p=464There are several ways to attract traffic to a website. These include Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) and Social Media Optimisation (SMO). According to the Wikipedia, Social media optimization is a set of methods for attracting visitors to website content by promoting and publicizing it through social media. SMO is a subset [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/social-media-optimisation-smo-the-dell-example/feed/0Working at Google : Life at the Googleplexhttp://www.omarkattan.com/working-at-google-life-at-the-googleplex/
http://www.omarkattan.com/working-at-google-life-at-the-googleplex/#commentsFri, 22 Jun 2007 16:48:07 +0000http://omarkattan.com/2007/06/22/working-at-google/1,300 resumes a day, is yours one of them? Watch this Oprah clip about working at Google and ask yourself this question… Why haven’t I applied yet? Enjoy the clip: Read these Top 10 reasons to work at Google, check out the benefits of working at Google, and apply to work at Google today! Working at [...]

]]>http://www.omarkattan.com/working-at-google-life-at-the-googleplex/feed/0A sleepless nighthttp://www.omarkattan.com/hello-world/
http://www.omarkattan.com/hello-world/#commentsWed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000Welcome to my Blog. My name is Omar Kattan and this is my first blog. Funny really since I work in search and I probably should have had one of these niftty things a long long time ago! Well, better late than never I say. Anyway… The reason I started this blog was because I recently [...]